I just received suspicious? e-mail from William McKown titled "Checking In" and requesting a reply. It comes from a Rosilyn McKown. If this is from Bill McKown from W&R Enterprises which has been clos

Would anyone have a photo of a B&LE hopper 45001-45100 built by Pressed Steel in 1935? I am hoping to find one to use as an illustration in an article so one with 300+ resolution would be even better.

All: I have 3 resin kits I won't build anytime soon. All three happen to be steel rebuilds, a popular list topic recently Since there are only 3, they are listed below. Shipping extra per USPS Priorit

Richard Remiarz's GN flatcars and his acquisition of a 50 watt laser have each left me somewhat awestruck. He has also reminded me that for the past month or so, I've been wanting to find out more abo

Using a laser cutter to make styrene freight car sides and entire kits is nothing new. Modeler’s Choice was doing it back in the 20’oughts (circa 2004), and Dave Hussey started producing some of the k

I'm looking for one Sunshine MILW stock car (can be single deck or double deck) and two MP (and subsidiaries) Howe Truss SS boxcars, one 39.6 and one 39.7. These will likely be the last Sunshine kits

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Attached is my For Sale List No. 4 of 47 more Sunshine Models kits, which are being offered first to my email list and members of this and other lists from which I have le

Jim DIck wrote: First of all, what does a real railroad think of Single Sheathed vs Double Sheathed, read the attachments. And please note the date of the letter is right in the USRA era. Sure. Writte

I'm painting a caboose and noticed the one I had done years ago has the wrong trucks. Does anyone make a archbar leaf spring truck? I'm not too picky other than that... Clark Propst

Another scratch built car, this time a flat car. I designed the car in CadRail and used a laser cutter to cut the steel and wood sections of the floor, sub floor, center sill, and all of the cross mem

I have built and upgraded Spokane, Portland & Seattle gondola 23038. . If you are interested in the upgrade of this gondola including application of Archer retaining clips (tie downs). And, painting,

This is a question contemporary with the focus of the STMFC group, and one whose subjects would have pushed around a lot of STMFC. Rapido recently announced some GE 44-tonners in HO. Their ad shows ph

I finished GN 66247 this morning, another scratch built 52’ flat car. These welded cars were built in 1945 and had deep fishbelly center sills and shallow sides. I appreciate the welded design, minimi

Greetings, Yesterday I finished GN 2527, a baggage express boxcar. It is built from an Intermountain kit. The car was upgraded with a detailed underframe (including scratch built Universal rotary slac

Greetings, It has been a busy day. I just finished GN 79000, another 65’ mill gondola. This one was built in December 1955 and used the earlier lettering scheme. I know this one is correct since I had

I purchased this slight out 0of focus (Sorry) Westerfield Santa Fe stock car a while back. The builder did a great job on the car, however, I want to update it with the later lettering scheme. I have

Greetings, Attached are a couple of photos of GN 79012, a 65’ mill gondola. The prototype was finished in January 1956 and had the new slanted lettering on mineral red paint. The model is scratch buil

Aside from the N&W, were there any other owners, secondhand etc ? Regards, Ben Scanlon Tottenham, England

I purchased the above Westerfield model some time ago. Whoever built it did an excellent job. I do, however, want to update the lettering to the later sachem. Most ( if not all) of these cars came equ

I am building Sunshine kit #29.12, however, this kit comes with Youngstown doors. I wish to build the car with 7 Panel Superior doors to represent a different series of the boxcar. The Youngstown door